Shelby County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Austin Windham, Shelby County, Texas, 1867
Austin Windham registered to vote in Shelby County on August 21, 1867. He reported Mississippi as his birthplace and 14 years in Texas. Shelby County registered 374 freedmen in 1867, 36% of its voters.
- Mississippi
- Birthplace
- 14 years
- In Texas
- about 1853
- Reached Texas
- 13 years
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From about 1853 to 1870
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Elsewhere in Texas
In Shelby County
Austin Windham
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Austin Windham
- Place of birth
- Mississippi
- County of registration
- Shelby County
- Precinct
- 4
- Registered
- August 21, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 14 years
- Years in Shelby County
- 8 months
- Years in the precinct
- 8 months
- Years in Texas before Shelby County
- 13 years
- Signature, as written
- "Austin his X mark Woodhams"
Elsewhere in Texas
13 yearsAustin Windham reported 13 years more in Texas than in Shelby County.
Windhams elsewhere in Texas
Sources
This entry comes from the 1867 to 1870 Texas voter registration, the Texas Secretary of State registration lists held by the Texas State Library and Archives Commission. It sits on page 14 of the Shelby County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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